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3 giorni fa · Henry expanded his empire at Louis's expense, taking Brittany and pushing east into central France and south into Toulouse; despite numerous peace conferences and treaties, no lasting agreement was reached. Henry and Eleanor had eight children.
5 giorni fa · Francis II (born June 23, 1435—died Sept. 9, 1488, Couëron, Brittany) was the duke of Brittany from 1458, who succeeded his uncle, Arthur III; he maintained a lifelong policy of Breton independence in the face of encroachments by the French crown.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
2 giorni fa · He was a maternal uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and a second cousin of King George VI. He joined the Royal Navy during the First World War and was appointed Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command, in the Second World War.
2 giorni fa · In 1465 Charles led a successful revolt of Louis's vassals in the War of the Public Weal. After becoming the Duke of Burgundy in 1467, Charles pursued his ambitions for a kingdom independent from France, stretching contiguously from the North Sea in the north to the borders of Savoy in the south.
5 giorni fa · Ermengard was the half-sister of Fulk V of Anjou, crusader and ruler of Jerusalem. She married Alan IV duke of Brittany, ruling the duchy of Brittany as his regent while he was on the First Crusade. After 1113 she ruled Brittany alone.
4 giorni fa · When the imprisoned Louis XVII died in 1795, Provence declared himself Louis XVIII. Perpetually in exile, he moved from Italy to Poland to England to Germany. In January 1814, he declared himself willing to accept some of the revolution’s changes, paving the way for the Charter of 1814 and the Restoration of the Bourbons.
5 giorni fa · A duke who has claims upon England and has served the King of France as a captain of lanzknechts will be dismissed. Letters from England of the 30th indicate that the King tried to have the Duke of Milan included.
